Save the middle class

If rich people were job creators as Republicans are fond of saying, we'd be swimming in jobs. What the wealthy actually do with their money is invest in companies whose objective is to make money for their investors. Companies do that by cutting wages and eliminating jobs.

Destroy the middle class, and there will be no one with money to buy cars, houses and washing machines. It is, actually, the middle class who are the job creators. Historically, when taxes were high, the middle class and business thrived. When taxes drop to the levels they are now, the middle class shrinks. More and more people fall into poverty, lose their homes, die from curable illnesses.

Ultimately, we'll reach a point where businesses will not be able to sell their products because not enough people will have the money to buy them. The jobs that rich people give to their gardeners and maids are pocket change. What they don't spend on houses, boats and planes they invest, wanting a nice return on their money. That way they can keep their tax bite at 13 percent while the rest of us are paying 25-35 percent. Income inequity, if unchecked, will bring this country down.

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Save the middle class

If rich people were job creators as Republicans are fond of saying, we'd be swimming in jobs. What the wealthy actually do with their money is invest in companies whose objective is to make money for